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For over two millennia, herring has been commercially caught, and its importance to the coastal peoples of Britain cannot be measured. At one point tens of thousands were involved in the catching, processing, and sale of herring. They followed the shoals around the coast from Stornoway to Penzance and many towns on Britain’s East Coast grew rich on the backs of the "silver darlings." This book looks at the effects of the herring on the people who caught them, their unique ways of life, the superstitions of the fisherfolk, their boats, and the communities who lived for the silver darlings.